Newcastle UV Street Art

Duckie Blog, Street Art Photography

Check out this wicked piece of street art I discovered just off Hunter Street Mall while running through the rain with a broken umbrella in Newcastle. I had passed it unknowingly by day and it appeared to be a rather unremarkable design of old film stars along a disused building. However by night the secret street art was revealed! Under …

Mystery Bus Debrief – Week 2

Duckie Blog, Performance Art & Installations

Mystery Bus Week 2 was a big ramp up on energy levels with a smörgåsbord of three different themed events. Thursday 22 September A rowdy crowd dolled up to the nines rocked up to the bus stop and were in for a night of dancing, drinking and debauchery and a camel bedecked lounge bar. The dance floor was always full …

De Quincey’s No Cold Feet

Duckie Art & Event Reviews

If you have a moment head to Sydney’s St Mary’s Cathedral at dusk tomorrow evening for an otherworldly experience. It will be your last chance to catch the site specific dance piece No Cold Feet by the locally based De Quincey Company. The beautiful and intriguing dance works its magical way from the cathedral stairs to the pond before eventually …

Yarn Graffiti in Amsterdam, Holland

Duckie Blog, Street Art Photography

A pretty little piece of guerrilla knitting I happened upon while strolling one of Amsterdam’s many canals. It was perched right there above the ‘Homomonument’ which I can only suppose is a tribute to the world’s homosexuals. For those of you in Sydney, there are a number of wool based installations around the city at the moment for the annual …

Mystery Bus Debrief – Week #1

Duckie Art & Event Reviews, Blog, Performance Art & Installations

Time to recap on the awesomeness that was Mystery Bus. After 7 nights, 4 newspaper articles, 1 radio interview, 36 artists, hundreds of audience members, and one bus, Mystery Bus 2011 is finally over. It has been an incredible, exhausting,chaotic and extremely rewarding experience to participate in the Sydney Fringe Festival with such an awesome show and awesome team. Thank …

Dancehall Queens 2010

Duckie Video Must Sees

Once I asked a co-worker if she wanted to go to a ‘Dancehall night’. She said yes, and it was too late to realise there had been a misunderstanding, and I was not, in fact, referring to a nostalgic partners dance. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBvdQYh8OHk] My favourite part is at 3:52, where the woman who is not endowed with a particularly large booty …